Timberwood and Scalewood: Valheim 1.0's Two New Building Materials
Valheim exited Early Access on September 9, 2026 with the 1.0 "Deep North" update, and the patch notes name two new wood materials for the game's final biome: Timberwood and Scalewood. Both are new build materials rather than weapons or tools, and the official notes are explicit about what each one produces — but stop well short of any numbers. On sourcing: the community wikis have no Deep North pages yet, so everything below comes from Iron Gate's own 1.0 announcement, not the usual wiki infoboxes. Where the notes don't give a figure, this article says so rather than guessing one.
Timberwood Is Plantable — That's the Headline Detail
The patch notes describe Timberwood as "a new material" that is also "Plantable (you can grow it)" and stored as a "Timberwood Stack." That plantable tag puts it in the same category as the game's farmable trees rather than a pure loot-table drop.
Timberwood feeds two named build categories: "Decorated Timber" pieces and "Timber" build pieces, plus furniture. The notes don't give an exact piece count for either category, and they don't list what a sapling costs to plant or how long it takes to mature — so treat "how many pieces" and "how long to grow" as undocumented for now, not zero.
Scalewood Feeds a 15-Piece Wall Set
Scalewood's job is narrower and the notes are more specific about it: it feeds "a set of 15 Scalewood Wall pieces (full wall, half, quarter, and 26°/45°/67° left/right and inverted variants)." That's a full wall, a half wall, and a quarter wall as the three base shapes, plus angled corner and inverted pieces at three slopes — 26°, 45°, and 67°. Fifteen named pieces from one material is the largest CONFIRMED piece count between the two Deep North woods — Timberwood's own Decorated Timber/Timber piece count is undocumented, so this is a comparison of documented figures only, not a claim about which material ships more pieces overall.
What the notes don't cover: what a Scalewood Wall piece costs to place, its health/durability, or where Scalewood itself is harvested from. All three are absent from the announcement, so none of them appear here as numbers.
The Rest of Deep North's New Wood Sets
The same section of the patch notes lists several more new build sets alongside Timberwood and Scalewood: "4 Ashwood pieces, 4 Wooden 67° pieces, 4 Shingle Roof and 4 Thatch Roof pieces." Add those four sets together — 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 — and that's 16 new build pieces across roofing and angled-wall categories alone, before counting Scalewood's 15 walls or Timberwood's uncounted Timber/Decorated Timber pieces. Add the Scalewood set on top and the notes confirm at least 31 new wood-based build pieces (16 + 15) in this one patch, not counting furniture.
Furniture gets its own line: "new furniture (Antler Throne, Carved Bench/Chair, Long/Square Carved Table, Wardrobe, Grausten Chest)." The source lists some of these as slash-compressed shorthand (Carved Bench/Chair, Long/Square Carved Table), so the exact number of individual furniture pieces is ambiguous — this article treats it as several named furniture pieces tied to the same Deep North build wave, not a specific count. The notes also don't say which of the two new woods (if either) any specific furniture piece requires to craft.
What's Still Undocumented
The official announcement is a features list, not a crafting reference. It confirms names, groupings, and what each new wall/roof/furniture set contains — but it does not publish comfort values, build costs, or durability for any Timberwood or Scalewood piece. It also doesn't state where either material is harvested, whether Scalewood comes from a tree the way Timberwood does, or how the plantable Timberwood sapling is obtained in the first place. Until a wiki page exists for the Deep North biome, none of those numbers should be treated as known — this article isn't going to invent them to fill the gap.
Practical tips
- Timberwood is plantable — grow your own supply rather than treating it as a one-time drop.
- Scalewood's payoff is walls: 15 named variants (full/half/quarter plus 26°/45°/67° corner and inverted pieces) — the largest confirmed piece count of the two new woods.
- Four more 4-piece sets (Ashwood, Wooden 67°, Shingle Roof, Thatch Roof) round out the wood/roof update — 16 pieces total.
- Several named furniture pieces ship alongside the materials: Antler Throne, Carved Bench/Chair, Long/Square Carved Table, Wardrobe, Grausten Chest — exact count undocumented.
- Comfort, cost, and durability numbers aren't published yet — don't trust a figure you see elsewhere until the wiki catches up to 1.0.
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Conclusion
Valheim 1.0's Deep North update ships two new wood materials with very different jobs. Timberwood is plantable and feeds Decorated Timber and Timber build pieces plus furniture — exact counts undocumented. Scalewood is narrower but confirmed in detail: a 15-piece wall set covering full, half, and quarter walls plus 26°/45°/67° corner and inverted variants. Around them, the same patch adds 16 more wood/roof pieces across four 4-piece sets (Ashwood, Wooden 67°, Shingle Roof, Thatch Roof) and several new furniture pieces, exact count undocumented. What the official notes don't give — comfort, build cost, durability, harvest location — is real, not filler: the community wikis haven't caught up to 1.0 yet, so those numbers stay unconfirmed until they do.
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